Lucy Webster is a writer, political journalist and disability advocate.
Lucy Webster

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Wednesday 6 September 2023
Disabled women are being excluded from essential services
It’s time to make their inclusion a priority, Lucy Webster writes
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Thursday 18 May 2023
Airlines can’t be trusted with disabled people’s wheelchairs
As the summer travel season approaches Lucy Webster asks why it so often means broken mobility aids and personal humiliation
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Friday 25 November 2022
The media are failing disabled people
Lucy Webster explains why – and how they can do better
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Friday 3 December 2021
Covid and disabled people: A missed opportunity
The pandemic presented a chance to improve disabled people’s lives. Instead, they’ve yet again been left behind
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Thursday 14 October 2021
Merging the health and care budgets is no magic solution
Sajid Javid’s reported plan to unite the two is more likely to starve the care system of funds, as cash is swallowed up by the NHS
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Friday 1 October 2021
Think the petrol situation is bad? Just wait for the care shortages…
Brexit has driven thousands of care workers away, and they’re not coming back. Without urgent policy change, disabled and older people face months of uncertainty and struggle
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Tuesday 14 September 2021
Freedom from vaccine passports isn’t freedom for disabled people
There are millions who could have used some extra reassurance as restrictions are eased. As it is, they’ll now be kept out of the gigs, club nights and other social occasions that everyone else takes for granted